I came across this job/career article in the San Jose Mercury News which is definitely worth a quick spin through and some noodling about how it relates to you and your career (or job search). The headline grabber is about how many job seekers in the ... [Continue Reading]
What motivates us?
Just finished reading a great book with the byline "The surprising truth about what motivates us"... the author is Dan Pink and the book is titled "Drive". It is a really good read (like all Dan Pink books -- I'm definitely a fan) and continues ... [Continue Reading]
Shooting down some common career myths
I came across this article in one of the many newsletters I receive in my in-box; this one struck me as a well constructed set of "myths" that many of us have bought into over the years. This blog post is from "Tech Republic" which is an IT centric ... [Continue Reading]
Do you know what you are worth?
If you are like the majority of working people out there, you willingly exchange a significant portion of your labour and talents for the ongoing promise of some kind of stability, predictability, and financial remuneration. You know this as your ... [Continue Reading]
Anti or pro business…?
I've just come from a very productive meeting with a gentleman who has very a impressive business and government policy pedigree; the intent of the meeting was to get some feedback from him on the Business Detox Project and some insights on how I ... [Continue Reading]
Truthiness in resumes…
Interesting article from Wharton that asks: "When do exaggerations and misstatements cross the line?" Here is a short extract from the article, just to get you chuckling a bit -- He recounts the story of Marilee Jones, a former dean of admissions ... [Continue Reading]
Paying to not produce oil
Came across an interesting article in TreeHugger about the UNDP paying Ecuador up to $3.6B not to develop a specific oil field. In my mind the interesting thing this does is set another price-point that can be used to help estimate the total cost of ... [Continue Reading]
Paying for externalities?
Great article here from Chris McDonald's business ethic blog about companies voluntarily paying for externalities and how this should be interpreted -- as hush money or doing the right thing... The basic idea is, I believe, sound (no pun intended if ... [Continue Reading]
Johnson & Johnson and the 1982 Tylenol murders
As I was scanning through some of Andrew Winston's previous blog entries at HBR, I came across this one that I thought had some interesting take-aways relevant to the Business Detox Project. The specific "lesson" that I was intrigued by was labeled ... [Continue Reading]
HBR guest blog: new Sustainability tool
I just came across this blog entry from Andrew Winston, writing in the Harvard Business Review -- it presents a nice conceptual wheel that can help companies better strategize about how to develop meaningful, strategically relevant sustainability ... [Continue Reading]
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